Largo from Monkey Subdues White bone Demon. Peter Schat.
Woman self portraits 1950-2000
Curators: Bob Van Blommestein & Floris Guntenaar
Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1950
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth, (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence.
Pauline Boty, 1958
Pauline Boty (6 March 1938 – 1 July 1966) was a founder of the British Pop art movement and the only female painter in the British wing of the movement. Boty's paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality, and expressed overt or implicit criticism of the "man's world" in which she lived. Her rebellious art, combined with her free-spirited lifestyle, has made Boty a herald of 1970s feminism.
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, 1959
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906. After leaving school aged only 13, Marie attended art schools in various locations around Europe including Vienna, Paris (at the Montparnasse Painting Academy) and Berlin. Following the end of the war, Motesiczky exhibited her paintings in many European institutions and she continued to work from her house in London, where she lived only with her mother and a single maid
Alice Neel, 1980
Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity.
Adrian Piper, 1981
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses ostracism, otherness, racial "passing" and racism. Born: September 20, 1948
Marte Mayer Erlebacher, 1989
Martha Mayer Erlebacher was a leading painter among contemporary realists. Erlebacher fuses classical techniques with modernist ideals; the results of which are thought provoking vanitas, sumptuously rendered still lifes and skillfully depicted nudes. (1937-2013)
Jenny Saville, 1992
Jenny Saville (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary British painter associated with the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England.
Jenny Saville, 1992
Jenny Saville (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary British painter associated with the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England.
Anne Harris, 1994
Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery and Nielsen Gallery, to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art.
Anne Harris, 1998
Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery and Nielsen Gallery, to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art.